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RN214 Won't Boot even after Factory Reset
Never had a problem till now. I had to move my ReadyNas to another location. Powered down, moved it, turned it back on and it's stuck on "Booting... 67%" After much internet searching, I tried di...
Set a reasonable time for the hardware clock and it appears to have booted fine now.
I suggest booting up "read only". That is described on page 62 of your hardware manual.
No luck. Still gets stuck "Booting..."
You could try zeroing one of the disks with WDC's Lifeguard software (a quick zero will do), and then try powering up the NAS with just that one disk installed. That will force a clean factory install to that drive.
Working on trying this idea (Zeroing out one drive at a time). I was able to mount one of the disks in a separate enclosure. "WDC's Lifeguard software" appears to be for Windows. I'm on a Mac. Using the Disk Utility, Erasing with a single pass of zeros should do the trick yes? Any advice on these Format options? Thanks!
and "Scheme" Options:
It should be unformatted with no partitions on the disk.
I removed a drive and completely erased it. Then put that 1 drive back in my ReadyNAS by itself. I chose "Factory Default" in the Boot Menu... but still hit the same old wall of stalling out while booting. Just "Booting... 61%" forevvvver. I've only had this thing a bit over a year. The 4 drives themselves all seem fine, but something seems to be up with the ReadyNas itself, I can't even sucessfully do a Factory Reset. Hope I'm not out $900 :( Any new ideas? Thanks everyone!
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